Patents Examined by Robin Mishler
  • Patent number: 10217422
    Abstract: An array substrate, a driving method thereof and an electronic paper. The array substrate includes a base substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines disposed on the base substrate, the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines being insulated from each other and extending across each other; a gate driving circuit disposed on the base substrate and electrically connected with the gate lines; and a data driving circuit disposed on the base substrate and electrically connected with the data lines. During a display period of a frame, the gate driving circuit is configured to load gate scanning signals to respective gate lines sequentially; and while each gate line is loaded with a respective gate scanning signal, the data driving circuit is configured to transmit data signals to the data lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., BEIJING BOE OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yue Li, Xiaochuan Chen, Lei Wang, Wenjun Xiao
  • Patent number: 10198135
    Abstract: There are provided a touch circuit, a touch panel and a display apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Fei Huang, Yun Qiao, Fuqiang Li, Cheng Li
  • Patent number: 10180740
    Abstract: A fingerprint sensor includes a first substrate, a second substrate on the first substrate, a first electrode and a first chip on the first substrate and a second electrode and a second chip on the second substrate. The first substrate includes a first area and a second area, the second substrate includes a third area and a fourth area, the first electrode is provided on the first area, the first chip is provided on the second area, the second electrode is provided on the third area, and the second chip is provided on the fourth area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Seung Jin Kim, Dong Mug Sung, Kyoung Jong Yoo
  • Patent number: 10181302
    Abstract: The present invention provides a drive method of a liquid crystal display panel, in which the counter (21), and the pulse modulation module (22) are located in the sequence controller (2), and the counter (21) in the sequence controller (2) pluses 1 as the sequence controller (2) outputs the display data of each row, and as the counter (21) in the sequence controller (2) pluses to i×M/N, the pulse modulation module (22) in the sequence controller (2) sends one pulse control signal (CS) to the i+1th gate drive IC correspondingly driving the i+1th pixel display region (Zone(i+1)) to control the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)) to output the target TFT activation voltage corresponding to the i+1th gate drive IC (GD(i+1)) after the internal calculation and the conversion, and thus the TFT activation voltage can be dynamically adjusted in real time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yinhung Chen, Yu Wu, Anle Hu
  • Patent number: 10175804
    Abstract: An electronic device has a force touch function. The electronic device includes an image display module having a touch electrode. A cover window attaches to a front surface of the image display module. A housing receives the image display module therein, and supports the cover window. A panel moving part is between the housing and the image display module. A driving circuit senses a touch force based on a distance between the image display module and the housing which are spaced from each other with the panel moving part interposed in-between.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: LG Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: SeungHwan Yoon, KiDuk Kim, JongHee Hwang, DongKyun Lim, EunJung Kim
  • Patent number: 10175484
    Abstract: A head-mounted display device includes an image display section capable of displaying an image in a display region, a visual-line-direction specifying section configured to specify a visual line direction of a user, and an image changing section configured to change, according to the specified visual line direction, a display image displayed in the display region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: SEIKO EPSON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenro Yajima, Yuichi Mori
  • Patent number: 10170034
    Abstract: The present application discloses a graphene display, and a driving method and a driving apparatus for a graphene display, the driving apparatus for a graphene display includes obtaining the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel to be input; determining the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels according to the grayscale values of the three primary colors of the pixel and the correspondence relationship of the preset grayscale values of the three primary colors and the grayscale values of the five primary colors; applying the driving voltages to the three dynamic sub-pixels respectively corresponding to the color and grayscale values of three dynamic sub-pixels. By the method described above, the gamut of the display is increased, to increase the display performance of the display and decrease the power consumption of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: Shenzhen China Star Optoelectronics Co., Ltd
    Inventor: Yong Fan
  • Patent number: 10162470
    Abstract: A display unit with a touch detection function includes: a plurality of touch detection electrodes arranged side by side to extend in a direction, each of the touch detection electrodes being formed in a predetermined electrode pattern including electrode portion and opening portion and outputting a detection signal, based on a variation in capacitance due to an external proximity object; and a plurality of display elements formed in a layer different from a layer of the touch detection electrodes, a predetermined number of the display elements being arranged within a width dimension of a region corresponding to each of the touch detection electrodes. The predetermined electrode pattern corresponds to a layout pattern of the display elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: JAPAN DISPLAY INC.
    Inventors: Koji Ishizaki, Koji Noguchi, Takayuki Nakanishi, Yasuyuki Matsui, Masanobu Ikeda
  • Patent number: 10156912
    Abstract: A six degree-of-freedom optical tracker system includes LEDs that are mounted on a structure, and are each configured to emit light. An LED controller is coupled to the LEDs and supplies drive current to each of the LEDs in a manner that causes the LEDs to sequentially and individually emit light. A single position sensing device that is spaced apart from each of the LEDs receives the light emitted from each of the LEDs and supplies position data for each LED. A processor receives the position data and determines the position and orientation of the structure relative to the single position sensing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Steven Martinez, Erik Erben, Michael Rawson
  • Patent number: 10140011
    Abstract: User inputs can indicate an intent of a user to target a location on a display. In order to determine a targeted point based on a user input, a computing device can receive an indication of at least one point, an indication of a width, and an indication of a height. The computing device can estimate a portion of the display based on the indication of the at least one point, the indication of the width, and the indication of the height. The computing device can also determine the targeted point based on a location of the at least one point and based on a location of a portion of one or more objects within the estimated portion of the display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Jen Anderson, Eric Christian Brown, Jennifer Teed, Goran Predovic, Bruce Edward James, Fei Su, Maybelle Lippert, Mudit Agrawal
  • Patent number: 10140010
    Abstract: A contact state of a finger with respect to a first displayed object is detected. In response to detecting a double-click operation on the first displayed object at a first position in a depthwise direction, the first displayed object is moved onto a surface of a display screen of a three-dimensional (3-D) display. In response to detecting that the finger has moved from the contact state to a proximity state with respect to the first displayed object, a display position of the first displayed object is changed from the surface of the display screen to a depth position at which a second object is displayed at a nearest side in the depthwise direction among displayed objects. The second object remains displayed at the depth position beside the first object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Hayato Uenohara, Satoshi Yokoyama
  • Patent number: 10133436
    Abstract: A touch screen panel includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes on a substrate, the plurality of first sensing electrodes being connected to each other in a first direction, a plurality of second sensing electrodes between the first sensing electrodes on the substrate, the plurality of second sensing electrodes being connected to each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction, a plurality of first connecting patterns connecting the first sensing electrodes to each other in the first direction, a plurality of second connecting patterns connecting the second sensing electrodes to each other in the second direction, a first insulating layer at least between the first connecting patterns and the second connecting patterns, and dummy patterns in at least one of the first and second sensing electrodes, the dummy patterns having island-shapes and being insulated from the first and second sensing electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Chang-Bum Kim, Jung-Mok Park, Hyung-Chul Kim
  • Patent number: 10133409
    Abstract: An array substrate, a fabricating method thereof and a touch panel are disclosed. The array substrate comprises a TFT, a common electrode layer, a touch line, a touch connection terminal and a connection electrode. The touch connection terminal and the touch line are arranged in different layers. The connection electrode comprises a first connection electrode arranged in a same layer as the touch line and a second connection electrode arranged in a same layer as the common electrode layer. The touch line is connected with the touch connection terminal through the first connection electrode, and the common electrode layer is connected with the touch connection terminal through the second connection electrode. The common electrode layer is connected indirectly with the touch line through the touch connection terminal. This reduces resistance between the common electrode layer and the touch line, and avoids defects in display and touch control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: BOE TECHNOLOGY GROUP CO., LTD., ORDOS YUANSHENG OPTOELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Dawei Shi
  • Patent number: 10126941
    Abstract: This document describes tools associated with symbol entry control functions. In some implementations, the tools identify a first finger that is in tactile contact with a touch screen. The first finger can select a subset of symbols from a plurality of symbols that can be entered via the touch screen. The tools can also identify whether one or more other fingers are in concurrent tactile contact with the first finger on the touch screen. The tools can select an individual symbol from the subset based on whether the one or more other fingers are in concurrent tactile contact with the first finger on the touch screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2018
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Bin Benjamin Zhu, Maowei Yang, Xuyong Yang, Shipeng Li
  • Patent number: 10121441
    Abstract: A gate driver on array (GOA) driver circuit and a liquid crystal display are proposed. The GOA driver circuit includes cascaded GOA units. The Nth-stage GOA unit includes a pull-up module, a pull-up control module, a pull-down holding module, a transferring module, and a bootstrap capacitor module. The pull-up module, the pull-down holding module, and the bootstrap capacitor module are electrically connected to an Nth-stage gate signal node Qn and an Nth-stage horizontal scan line Gn, respectively. The pull-up control module and the transferring module are connected to the Nth-stage gate signal node Qn.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Xiaowen Lv, Shujhih Chen
  • Patent number: 10096264
    Abstract: An apparatus can include a processor; memory operatively coupled to the processor; a touch-sensitive display operatively coupled to the processor; and a tactile braille panel operatively coupled to the processor where the tactile braille panel overlays at least a portion of the touch-sensitive display.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.
    Inventor: Douglas Warren Robinson
  • Patent number: 10083654
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of eliminating OLED display panel Mura. The compensation gray scale which should be utilized is calculated according to the target brightnesses, the actual brightnesses at the 255 gray scale of the respective sub pixels, and the local gamma value at the present display gray scale, and then the OLED display panel is made to show the present compensation gray scale captured at present to determine whether the preset condition of ending the calculation of the compensation gray scale is achieved, and if it is not achieved, the actual brightness of the sub pixel at the compensation gray scale is captured to calculate again for obtaining the local gamma value at the present display gray scale and the compensation gray scale which should be utilized next time, and the iterative computation does not stop until the aforesaid preset condition is achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2018
    Assignee: SHENZHEN CHINA STAR OPTOELECTRONICS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Yufan Deng
  • Patent number: 10078990
    Abstract: A timing controller includes: a compensator to receive an image signal and to output a compensation image signal; a dimming range adjustor to receive a backlight dimming signal and to output a dimming range signal to adjust an active section of the backlight dimming signal; a smoothing processor to output a smoothing image signal to smooth the compensation image signal in response to the dimming range signal; and a data output part to output an image data signal by adding the smoothing image signal to the image signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: Samsung Display Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Byungkil Jeon, Junpyo Lee, Hwanwoong Lee, Yongho Sung, Woojung Jung, Seunghwan Moon
  • Patent number: 10067668
    Abstract: A portable electronic device, an operating method for the same, and a non-transitory computer readable recording medium are provided. The portable electronic device includes a body and an edge sensor disposed adjacent to an edge of the body. The operating method includes the following step. When a plugging-in event or a plugging-out event of a peripheral device is detected by the portable electronic device, a squeezing event sensed by the edge sensor is ignored. The squeezing event may be generated when a squeeze action sensed by the edge sensor occurs during a first time period. The plugging-in event or the plugging-out event may occur during the first time period. Alternatively, the squeeze action may begin within a second time period after the plugging-in event or the plugging-out event occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: HTC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Chia-Yao Lin, Yen-Hung Lin, Shih-Lung Lin, Chia-Chu Ho, Hsuan-Yi Lee, Kuan-Wei Li, Jian-Shuen Chen, Yu-Hung Chen, Chun-Hung Hsieh, Pin-Yu Huang
  • Patent number: 10067587
    Abstract: An example display device includes an active portion having a plurality of display electrodes, an inactive portion, a plurality of source lines disposed at least partially in the active portion, and a plurality of routing traces. The routing traces include a first routing trace, at least a first portion thereof being disposed in a first metal layer, parallel to a first source line of the plurality of source lines and in the active portion. The routing traces further include a second routing trace, a first portion thereof disposed parallel to the first routing trace in the first metal layer and in the active portion, a second portion of the second routing trace disposed in a second metal layer in the inactive portion and crossing the first routing trace, the second routing trace coupled to a first display electrode of the plurality of display electrodes through a first via.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: SYNAPTICS INCORPORATED
    Inventor: Petr Shepelev